By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot).
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Category Archives: Django
django-configurations
django-configurations: Sanest approach I’ve seen to having multiple DJANGO_SETTINGS_FILE setups for your various environments. Plus it looks like it’d work really well with envdir which lets you store environment variables in files in a folder and execute programs using that folder’s … Continue reading
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Get XML coverage reports from nose
Quick recap of my tiny plugin for nose. Continue reading
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Django continuous integration with Hudson and Nose
How to set up continuous testing, with coverage, of your Django project in Hudson. Continue reading
Posted in Django, Programming, Python, Technology
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Setup Django with mod_wsgi on your Mac
Logged for your pleasure, and mine: the steps I went through to setup mod_wsgi on my Mac for local development of Django apps. Continue reading
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A short introduction to Django and Gearman
Notes from my lightning talk at DjangoCon 2009 on Gearman, a distributed work queue. Continue reading
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Django testing tip: don’t test template output
When writing tests for [Django views](http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/#the-view-layer), especially for projects at [work](http://www.ajc.com), I’ve almost completely abandoned any sort of detailed test for the template being rendered. My tests usually look something like this: def test_link_archive_should_show_published_links(self): “””Links in draft status shouldn’t appear … Continue reading
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Django Template Development review
You wouldn’t know it by looking at this site, or the HTML behind it, but I actualy started off life as a Web designer for [my college paper](http://themaneater.com). So even though my [day job](http://www.ajc.com) revolves around application development, caching strategies, … Continue reading
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Django cache keys: making them safer
I posted some [my-snippet] over at [Django snippets] [django-snippets] the other day. This code evolved at [work] [ajc] over several months as we encountered a few caching challenges with [memcache] [memcache]. * The first problem was that occasionally some of … Continue reading
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Django developer wanted at ajc.com
We’re looking for a great Django/Python developer to join our small team at [ajc.com] [ajc]. Check out the job posting at [Django Gigs] [django-gig] or at [Craigslist] [craigslist]. Here are some of the benefits to working on our team: * … Continue reading
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And now, for something completely differ^h^h^h^h^h^h magical
If you haven’t already, check out the CameraBag application for the iPhone. It allows you to apply a nifty set of features to photos on your phone. Of course, because [Django](http://www.djangoproject.com/) is awesome, and because [magical ponies](http://djangopony.com/) are even more … Continue reading
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Chris Heisel 